Social transition and changes in the value system: Example of Vojvodina

Starting from the importance that values has have for any organized society the authors tries to determine general directions of changes in the value system of the inhabitants of Vojvodina, the northern province of the Republic of Serbia. For that purpose the dates gathered during the empirical research in 2002 are used, when more than 1200 polled choused among universal and collective values, and individual character features. Among them, the most frequents are health, family and honesty. The authors argues that these values belongs to the domain of self-preservation and that they emerged as a result of permanent crisis of the Serbian state and society in the last decade of the twentieth century. In the wider cultural context, the results of the research supported the already noticed trends of retraditionalisation of the Serbian/Vojvodinian society